Design trends and perspectives of digital low dropout voltage regulators for low voltage mobile applications: A review

LF Lai, H Ramiah, YC Tan, NS Lai, CC Lim… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulator has fascinated industry professionals and academia
for the past few decades, and this trend is expected to continue in the coming years. The …

A fully integrated digital LDO with built-in adaptive sampling and active voltage positioning using a beat-frequency quantizer

S Kundu, M Liu, SJ Wen, R Wong… - IEEE journal of solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a fully integrated digital low-dropout (DLDO) regulator using a beat-
frequency (BF) quantizer implemented in a 65-nm low power (LP) CMOS technology. A time …

An NMOS digital LDO with NAND-based analog-assisted loop in 28-nm CMOS

X Ma, Y Lu, Q Li, WH Ki… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an NMOS digital low-dropout regulator (LDO) with fast transient
response and ultra-low quiescent current, to provide a tunable power supply for near …

A fast-transient-response fully-integrated digital LDO with adaptive current step size control

G Cai, C Zhan, Y Lu - … Transactions on Circuits and Systems I …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 0.6-V 100-mA fully-integrated digital low-dropout regulator (DLDO) with adaptive current
step size control is presented in this paper. By dividing the main power PMOSs into ten …

Review, survey, and benchmark of recent digital LDO voltage regulators

Z Wang, SJ Kim, K Bowman… - 2022 IEEE Custom …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a review of the recent digital low-dropout voltage regulators (DLDOs).
We have reviewed them in five aspects: control laws, triggering methods, power-FET circuit …

0.5–1-V, 90–400-mA, modular, distributed, 3× 3 digital LDOs based on event-driven control and domino sampling and regulation

SJ Kim, D Kim, Y Pu, C Shi, SB Chang… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents on-chip power delivery hardware comprised of nine event-driven (ED)
digital low-dropout voltage regulators (LDOs) for a large digital load. The goal is to address …

Sub-microamp energy harvesting and power management units for self-powered iot socs: Analog vs. digital implementations

S Li, BH Calhoun - 2020 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The power consumption of ultra-low-power (ULP) Internet-of-Things (IoT) SoCs and
components has been scaling down from μW to pW levels over the past ten years …

Fast-turnaround design and modeling techniques for a fast-transient digital low-dropout regulator with 3 mV ripples

WJ Chen, CH Huang - IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a low-complexity digital low-dropout regulator (DLDO) design featuring
a novel voltage regulation and transient enhancement scheme, and a charge-redistribution …

A 100 MHz, 0.8-to-1.1 V, 170 mA digital LDO with 8-cycles mean settling time and 9-bit regulating resolution in 180-nm CMOS

Z Yuan, S Fan, C Yuan, L Geng - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief presents an all-digital low dropout regulator (DLDO) with high regulating
resolution and fast transient tracking by combining novel interval-searching algorithm and …

A feedforward controlled digital low-dropout regulator with weight redistribution algorithm and body voltage control for improving line regulation with 99.99% current …

BH Chen, TY Wu, KL Zheng, KH Chen… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a digital LDO with a feedforward controller and weight redistribution algorithm
(WRA) for line regulation improvement is proposed. The proposed digital low dropout …